Question

I have a model such as Story. It has a key that links it to author. I have the relationship and when i do.

storyHolder = Story->findByPK(id)

Returns the story, then

storyHolder ->author

returns the author object. The issue is that im getting both data sets by themselves I want them combined. Example returnObject{story{}, author{}}. I want returnObject{story{author{}}}

Answer 1

Sorry if the question is unclear,

It looks like the real issue is not with story->author but with CJSON.

Following the question, in the answered questions comment is a link to a chat, in the chat is a link to this forum post.

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/12952-cjsonencode-for-an-ar-object-does-not-include-its-related-objects/

I ended putting this in my controller

    /**
     * @return CMapIterator the iterator for the foreach statement
     */
    public function getIterator()
    {
            $attributes=$this->getAttributes();
            $relations = array();

            foreach ($this->relations() as $key => $related)
            {
                    if ($this->hasRelated($key))
                    {
                            $relations[$key] = $this->$key;
                    }
            }

            $all = array_merge($attributes, $relations);

            return new CMapIterator($all);
    }

Code taken from benjaminbytheway from the Yii forums.

Just attempts to clear up the issue it appears when using CJSON in your view it doesn’t include relationship objects.